Human Strength

[Pckts]

(01-23-2018, 10:14 PM)Polar Wrote:

(01-23-2018, 10:05 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(01-23-2018, 09:52 PM)Polar Wrote: The Miocic/Francis fight made me realize something similar to human/some animal confrontations: animals have all the advantages in the world, but mostly for the first 5-10 minutes, but their advantages mean much less after time because of human's superior endurance to most animals. Ngannou has all the immediate advantages (strength, dynamite KO power, weight and good reach, general explosiveness), but Miocic has all the advantages to take the distance (more hand speed, swifter, much more endurance, and more experience), but obviously humans don't have experience fighting animals or we'd all be dead. After time, Ngannou's advantages become minimum and eventually become nothing because of all the disadvantages the advantages come with.

Most humans end up like Overeem ended (by getting killed in very short fashion), but maybe with some small animals, we can end up like Miocic winning in the long run. Just another way to think about an encounter between a human and beast.

Remember the most important advantage...
Wrestling! It's most important aspect to any fight, BJJ is right up there as well but until one is a master in wrestling they will never be able to reach the top tier of MMA, whether its takedowns, takedown defense, ground control or cage control, wrestling is the first thing any fighter should practice and get well versed in, it doesn't matter how good of a striker you are, until you can stop the takedown, your skills will be negated.

Another most important advantage is keeping the distance, which is what Miocic did in the first round.

Distance is Ngannou's ally, with his long reach and fear of the takedown, keeping the distance would of benefited Francis, Miocic used phenomenal head movement in the first to avoid big shots and then he closed the distance and shot in which forced Ngannou to defend, Miocic had 3-4 unsuccessful TD Attempts in the 1st before he finally got him down but they paid dividends. He forced Ngannou to think about the shot and can't rely strictly on being a striker and most importantly, he wears himself out defending them, whether they are successful or not isn't the point, they force Ngannou to use valuable energy. Reply